Pollard the Spy

Two facts are crystal clear. First, two hundred and
eighty million Americans now live less secure lives
because of the spy Jonathan Jay Pollard. Second, the
perfidious Israelis eagerly pocketed many billions of
American taxpayer dollars and then repaid the favor
by stabbing America in the back. The spy Pollard has
served thirteen years of a life sentence. Now a
consortium of fifty-five Jewish groups, calling itself
The Conference of Presidents of Major American
Jewish Organizations, is publicly calling for Pollard’s
release because, in their opinion, what he did was no
big deal. They have characterized Pollard as “the
American Dreyfus”, which is grotesque.

Alfred Drefus was a righteous, sober, French army
captain who was falsely accused of passing French
military secrets to the Germans. He was also a Jew.
His trial in 1894 spawned a wave of anti-Jewish
hostility. The true villain in this case was the real
traitor, one Major Walsin Esterhazy, a free-spending
drunkard and degenerate. If Jonathan Jay Pollard
resembles anyone in the Dreyfus Affair it is
Esterhazy.

These are the facts: Pollard was born into
comfortable circumstances. At age sixteen (1970) he
attended a summer camp for gifted children in Israel.
After high school he went to Stanford University. His
classmates remember him as a heavy drug user and a
drunk who rattled on at length about his connections
to Israeli intelligence and the Israeli army. Pollard
graduated in 1976. In the following three years he
attended several graduate schools but never got a
degree. He then applied to the CIA for a job but was
rejected after a lie detector test and a follow-up
investigation revealed that he was a liar and a
blabbermouth.

The rejected Pollard then applied to the Navy and
obtained a civilian position as a research analyst. The
Navy knew nothing of the CIA’s assessment that
Pollard was unworthy of a security clearance. His
associates remember him for his bragging and
preposterous storytelling. During this time he was
deeply in debt for loans, credit cards, rent, furniture,
cars, etc. He was heavily hitting up his colleagues for
cash to forestall the garnishment of his wages, which
would have resulted in the loss of his security
clearance. Even so, Pollard continued to spend
lavishly on expensive restaurants, booze and drugs.

In the early 80’s Pollard arrived at a job interview
looking rumpled and unshaven. He told the
interviewer that he had spent his weekend trying to
free his fiance from IRA kidnappers. His interviewer
later described Pollard as “a wacko”. In late 1983,
soon after the terrorist bombing of a Marine barracks
in Beirut, the Navy assigned Pollard to its
Anti-Terrorist Alert Center, where he had access to
the most current top secret American intelligence. By
that summer the willing Pollard had been recruited by
Israeli espionage agents.

Pollard wanted cash, so his Israeli handlers greased
him with a $2500-a-month salary and tens of
thousands of dollars for hotels, meals and jewelry.
Pollard received fifty thousand dollars in cash and
was told that another thirty thousand dollars would be
deposited each year in his foreign bank account.
Pollard pledged to spy for Israel for a decade for the
cash sum of $540,000. After a careful review of the
evidence, a judge sentenced Pollard to life in prison.
Pollard’s wife and accomplice, Anne, was sentenced
to five years in prison.

Once in prison, Pollard underwent a jailhouse
conversion to Orthodox Judaism, dumped Anne, and
proclaimed that he had been married in prison, under
Jewish law, to a foreign national named Elaine Zeitz,
a.k.a Esther Pollard. Esther became his tireless lying
mouthpiece. Her two biggest lies were that Pollard’s
espionage did not harm America and that he gave the
Israelis only what they needed for their defense. The
truth is that Pollard betrayed his country for money,
he did enormous damage to America’s security, and
the Israelis gave top-secret American intelligence that
they acquired from Pollard to the Soviet Union in
exchange for selected Jewish emigres.

The hard-won intelligence that Pollard sold to the
Israelis revealed to them not only what America
knows, but how America came to know it. Pollard
exposed how American intelligence systems work,
how we know what we know. After Pollard’s betrayal
our ability to monitor ground sites and
communications in the Middle East became more
difficult. The process slowed down as targets learned
how better to hide from view. It became a struggle to
recruit foreign agents.

Israeli espionage agents directed Pollard to steal top
secret information that was of no practical use to
Israel, such as the methods by which America tracks
Soviet submarines. Israel then gave this information to
the Soviet Union in exchange for Jewish scientists
with expertise in missile technology and nuclear
weapons. The result of Pollard’s betrayal is that Israel
acquired an improved nuclear weapons arsenal and
ballistic missile system and the Soviets learned how to
evade detection so that American cities may have
only a five-minute warning before a sweeping
submarine-launched thermonuclear holocaust
incinerates tens of millions of Americans. The
Israelis used Pollard to acquire the entire U.S. attack
plan against the Soviet Union. All of it. The
locations, sequences, methods, everything; and then
they traded this also to the Russians.

The lesson is clear: the Israel cannot be trusted. Even
without Israeli deal making, the material provided by
Pollard would have found its way to Moscow because
Israel was awash with Soviet spies.

Though Pollard has pretended remorse for his
betrayal, he has steadfastly refused to give a full
account of what top secret information he sold to
Israel. In other words, he’s still betraying America.
The Israelis have refused to give an accounting of the
documents they stole from us. It is clear from the
specific request list that they gave to Pollard that the
Israelis have other spies hidden in our government.
Pollard has estimated that a tightly packed stack of
the documents he sold to Israel would measure six
feet by six feet by ten feet high. Israeli spies Rafi
Eitan, Irit Erb and Joseph Yagur ran the operation.
Pollard was feeding them stolen documents so fast
that they were forced to install a high-speed copy
machine in a rented apartment in Washington just to
keep up with the volume.

The National Security Agency maintains and updates
a ten volume manual known as RASIN, an acronym
for radio signal notations. This top-secret document
includes all the known communications links used by
the Soviet Union, their sites, frequencies and
characteristics. Anyone with a copy of RASIN knows
what we know, what we can know, and how to hide
their signals from us. It tells how we analyze
communications and how we solve problems. It tells
them how we think. RASIN is a roadmap for evading
detection. Pollard gave the entire ten-volume set to
the Israelis. Its loss exposes us to surprise attack.

Pollard endangered the lives of many of his fellow
citizens when he passed along thousands of pages of
documents drawn from debriefings of travelers to the
Middle East. After a single trip to a government
library, Pollard needed a handcart to move all the
stolen documents to his car in a nearby parking lot.

Pollard also gave the Israelis the National SIGINT
Requirements List which itemizes the various tasks
assigned to NSA field units around the world. With
this information our enemies can anticipate American
field operations, they can evade detection, they can
ambush our troops on the battlefield. On October 1,
1985 the Israeli Air Force killed at least sixty-seven
people in a bombing raid on Tunisia. The raid came
as a complete surprise to American intelligence. The
Israelis had used Pollard’s information to evade
detection.

So the facts are clear. Jonathan Jay Pollard betrayed
his country for money. He pocketed fifty thousand
dollars and was promised over half a million dollars.
He willingly entered into a conspiracy with foreign
espionage agents who directed him to steal America’s
most sensitive military secrets. As a result of this
betrayal all Americans now live more precarious
lives. Our cities are now more vulnerable to
thermonuclear incineration. Future American military
operations are now compromised. The Israelis sold us
out for their own purposes.

The ugly demonstration of support for this traitor is
an unpleasant echo of the enthusiastic anti-American
sympathies once displayed by supporters of the
traitors Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who had
conspired to assist Joseph Stalin, the most notorious
mass murderer in history, in his demonic quest to
acquire thermonuclear weapons. The defenders of the
Rosenbergs insisted that their treason trial was really
all about anti-Semitism. Recently released KGB files
confirm that they were willing Stalinist spies and
traitors.

Pollard admits his guilt. Is he any less a traitor than
Benedict Arnold who conspired to turn over West
Point to the British? One of Arnold’s accomplices,
Major Andre, was hanged as a spy. The Rosenbergs
were executed. Jonathan Pollard watches television in
prison. Big hardship.

It is the proper place of every American patriot to
explain to the Friends of Pollard that Israel is not
America’s fifty-first state. Israel has proven itself to
be a second-rate ally and no friend of America. Israel
has refused to make an accounting of the material she
stole from us.

The five-billion-dollar American taxpayer subsidy
that goes to Israel each year should be terminated. As
one of the world’s most successful international arms
merchants, the Israelis can afford to pay their own
way from now on. They can enhance their nuclear
arsenal at their own expense. They have cynically
exploited our pockets and our good will long enough.

Jonathan Pollard must remain in prison as a chilling
reminder to other would-be traitors of our resolve not
to be betrayed and our determination to preserve our
republic, our freedoms and our lives. The Friends of
Pollard want to remove this chilling example and go
back to the way things were before, back to business
as usual. Their time would be better spent asking the
Prime Minister of Israel why he refuses to even
consider releasing prisoner of conscience Mordechai
Vanunu, who is now serving eighteen years in
solitary confinement for telling a British newspaper
about Israel’s nuclear arsenal.